Book Review: 'Bleeding Edge,' by Thomas Pynchon (WSJ)

[Lemuel Underwing]

Alice is right on the money again.... I was about Ziggy's age when all this
happened, there's something striking... I can't quite put my finger on it
yet


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:44 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I'm sure I'm not the only one on the P-List who knew all these
> characters, knows them still. Knows these places, these faces, these
> voices, these children, these women, these men, these streets and
> coffee slurping schlepping Hub Slirpers, these scammers and spammers
> and LIBORers and BE-Laborers, who still, though some splattered
> spreadeagle in the sidewalks as we stood there, as we took cover,
> lurk in the shadows, still...still, where the dust and debris and the
> memories in the voicebox rattle in Jewish tones and inflections like
> Marge Simpson's sisters puffing and sipping away the pain, drowning
> the sorrow, remembering how we've forgotten so quickly, how, with a
> rush we went public, initially offering our stocks of photographs and
> videos, then got on with the business of business.
>
> I am laugher and tears on every page.
>
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